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Former barrister Shirley Bothroyd is alleged to have made threats to burn down the Bay Hotel on Teignmouth seafront - the day before it burnt down

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by Colleen Smith

14:43, 22 Sep 2017Updated12:50, 31 Oct 2017

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A former barrister has denied setting fire to her hotel business in Teignmouth the day after making threats to burn it down.

Shirley Bothroyd , aged 59, appeared at Exeter Crown Court by video link from Eastwood Park prison near Bristol, which she described as HMP Butlins in a recent letter to a local paper.

In her letter she says she is using the gym and library, gardening and cooking.

She says her food and drink is not being 'spiked with crack cocaine anymore'.

And she adds that she is 'clear of booze', and has stopped smoking.

Bothroyd, of the Bay Hotel, Teignmouth , denied threatening to destroy or damage property on August 22 this year and arson, being reckless whether life was endangered on the following day at the hotel in South View, Teignmouth.

Judge Geoffrey Mercer, QC, adjourned the case and set a timetable for the exchange of prosecution and defence cases and trial date of January 29, 2018.